Axelrod Cracks Miss California Joke

[BlueJessamine]

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Axelrod, appearing on stage in Washington as the star guest of National Public Radio's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!:

PETER SAGAL, HOST: So, let's take the President's dog. Obviously, that was focus-grouped, you really wanted to appeal to the Portuguese-American community with the choice. Seriously, do you, is it part of your job to worry about that, how things will play politically. How they'll look, how they should be framed?

DAVID AXELROD, WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ADVISOR: I only, I only got called in for the final three on the dog.

SAGAL: Really?

AXELROD: I wasn't there at the beginning of the process.

SAGAL: Seriously, were you consulted?

AXELROD: I was not consulted.

SAGAL: Really?

AXELROD: I was not consulted.

SAGAL: Really?

AXELROD: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: But who were the other two? Were there really two others?

AXELROD: One was Miss California.

(Audience applause and laughter)

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: Dude, you just lost the carelessly topless demographic for 2012.

[bookman]

1. Wait, Wait

I always download their podcast. Some good political humor in a light show.

Mo Rocca was the one who asked who were the other two.

Sagel was the one who uttered the carelessly topless demo line.

[PatSeg]

2. Democrats are funnier

It comes naturally to liberals, conservatives generally have to work at it and often fall flat on their faces. Michael Steele for example.